SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 7

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

GENERAL PRACTITIONER SERVICE. DRAFTING OF REGULATIONS. iRy Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON. This Day. "The drafting of the required regulations is well forward, and they are expected to be available ly the end of . this week." said the Minister or Health. Mr Armstrong, referring yesterday tc ■ the progress made with preparation.for the inauguration of the general I practitioner service under the Social J Security Act. I The Minister, who indicated that I little further delay was expected be- ] f ue ‘lie service curie into operation • said the authorities had now reached I a stage where they could not proeeec, ! any further till the law drafting office • had finished its job. One of the dif- ; Acuities was that it was a one-man , job. and the officer responsible had asj Stired hint that he was doing all that he could to have the regulations ready by the end of the present week

The preliminary work, said Mr Arm

strong, had been done. An important feature of this had been the printing I of millions of cards and the arrange- ! ment of office accommodation for staff: •in the various centres. "The Public j Service Commissioner." added the Min- ; ister. "has the job of staffing well in , hand, and the Government Printing j Office is ready to proceed with the balj ar.ee of the printing just as soon ns : the regulations are finished."